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Preparing players for college, basketball academy uses Y as its home

By Mark Wineka mark.wineka@salisburypost.com   SALISBURY — Donel Simmons and Aaron Davis Jr. had been going at it about an hour. This was their third one-on-one ... Read more

by Mark Wineka, Thursday, February 12, 2015 12:00 am

Local

‘Life in the Carolinas’ episode will feature Isenhour, Clyde

By Mark Wineka mark.wineka@salisburypost.com SALISBURY — Carl White says he’s in “the happy-story business,” and that vocation ended up taking him to Salisbury for an episode ... Read more

by Mark Wineka, Wednesday, February 11, 2015 1:00 am

Local

New report: Close to 4,000 were victims of lynchings in South

By Mark Wineka mark.wineka@salisburypost.com The Equal Justice Initiative, based in Montgomery, Ala., released a report Tuesday concluding there were 3,959 victims of “racial terror lynchings” ... Read more

by Mark Wineka, Wednesday, February 11, 2015 12:00 am

News

Yesterday: a 1988 reunion at Cooleemee Plantation

This Wayne Hinshaw photograph from the Salisbury Post files shows, left to right, cousins Squire Hairston of Petersville,  Collie Hairston of Camden, N.J., and Verdeen ... Read more

by Mark Wineka, Monday, February 9, 2015 12:00 am

Local

Costume Man: Smith loves to build them, hates to wear them

SALISBURY — By day, mild-mannered and bespectacled Robert Smith is a retired Air Force veteran working as a supply clerk at the Hefner VA Medical ... Read more

by Mark Wineka, Sunday, February 8, 2015 12:40 am

Entertainment

Calif. couple travels across country to see guitarist Phil Keaggy

SALISBURY — Sitting on a long couch in the Lee Street Theatre dressing room, Phil Keaggy seemed to be experimenting with his guitar. As his fingers danced ... Read more

by Mark Wineka, Saturday, February 7, 2015 12:00 am

Entertainment

Websters’ new folk art school has room to grow

SALISBURY — In a rambling, late 1800s house on South Main Street, Carrie and Eric Webster have dedicated two rooms to Carolina Folkworks. They’re starting ... Read more

by Mark Wineka, Friday, February 6, 2015 12:05 am

Granite Quarry

Granite Quarry keeps moving toward revitalization plan

By Mark Wineka mark.wineka@salisburypost.com GRANITE QUARRY — The Board of Aldermen voted Monday night to finalize a contract with a Greenville, S.C., planning firm, which ... Read more

by Mark Wineka, Wednesday, February 4, 2015 12:00 am

Local

J.P. Helms: loyal employee, devoted friend

SALISBURY — J.P. Helms always seemed to be on the move, hustling to call on an account, running something by publisher Jim Hurley on the second ... Read more

by Mark Wineka, Wednesday, February 4, 2015 12:00 am

Local

Yesterday: A 1906 outing in New York

Ray Barber, who puts in a lot of volunteer time with Historic Salisbury Foundation, came across this photograph in a box of items donated by relatives ... Read more

by Mark Wineka, Monday, February 2, 2015 12:00 am

Entertainment

On his sax, Zirt still keeps up with the young guys

SALISBURY — Although he just celebrated his 80th birthday, Bob Zirt still works full-time at North Pines Inc., a wholesale clothing company he founded and ... Read more

by Mark Wineka, Sunday, February 1, 2015 12:00 am

Granite Quarry

On second vote, GQ board still goes for separate mayoral election

By Mark Wineka mark.wineka@salisburypost.com GRANITE QUARRY — For the second time this month, Mayor Bill Feather broke a tie Thursday and voted for amending the town’s ... Read more

by Mark Wineka, Friday, January 30, 2015 12:00 am

Business

For fishing gear, ‘Go to the candy store’

By Mark Wineka mark.wineka@salisburypost.com SALISBURY — Mark Staley walked toward the checkout counter with a box of Blow Pops, a bag of Bit-O-Honey and a ... Read more

by Mark Wineka, Thursday, January 29, 2015 12:30 am

Local

Wineka column: Dylan as teacher? A hard rain’s gonna fall

SALISBURY — The past few days my mind has found it difficult to let go of a news blurb about Bob Dylan, the folk-singing icon. If ... Read more

by Mark Wineka, Wednesday, January 28, 2015 12:00 am

Local

Yesterday: Dr. L.C. Jones on deck of USS Susquehanna in World War I

Local historian Reginald Brown brought in this February 1918 photograph, courtesy of the L.C. Jones family of Salisbury. The man on the left is Mess ... Read more

by Mark Wineka, Monday, January 26, 2015 12:00 am

Lifestyle

Postcards from Vienna

For 2015, my wife and I ushered in the new year a little differently. We waltzed it in. Toward the end of my family’s recent ... Read more

by Mark Wineka, Sunday, January 25, 2015 12:00 am

Local

Wineka column: Emily Stirewalt’s grave situation

SALISBURY — Emily Stirewalt has had enough. On Dec. 22, her late husband’s birthday, she placed a small, living Christmas tree next to his marker ... Read more

by Mark Wineka, Saturday, January 24, 2015 12:00 am

Local

DOT hears mixed reactions to closing of rail crossing

By Mark Wineka mark.wineka@salisburypost.com SALISBURY — For most of her life, Mary Gray has lived off Henderson Grove Church Road near her church of the same ... Read more

by Mark Wineka, Friday, January 23, 2015 12:00 am

Local

Deadline approaches for Robertson Foundation grant applications

SALISBURY — The Robertson Family Foundation grant application deadline will be Feb. 20, which is an earlier date than in the past. The change is ... Read more

by Mark Wineka, Thursday, January 22, 2015 12:30 am

Granite Quarry

Second vote scheduled on Granite Quarry mayoral election

GRANITE QUARRY  — The Granite Quarry Board of Aldermen will hold a called meeting at 5 p.m., Jan. 29, at Town Hall to have a ... Read more

by Mark Wineka, Thursday, January 22, 2015 12:00 am

Granite Quarry

GQ hears revitalization pitch: ‘We don’t want to set you up for failure’

By Mark Wineka mark.wineka@salisburypost.com GRANITE QUARRY — A S.C. consulting firm told Granite Quarry’s Revitalization Team it can deliver a master plan for the town ... Read more

by Mark Wineka, Wednesday, January 21, 2015 12:00 am

Business

Pet-sitter Bentley wants her ‘humans’ to have peace of mind

SALISBURY — Libby Bentley did everything from flipping houses to working in a produce warehouse to helping run a fish store. But Bentley found her ... Read more

by Mark Wineka, Monday, January 19, 2015 12:00 am

Local

Yesterday: They’ve got a ticket to ride — in a 1911 Overland

Marianne Corriher Wilson of Landis submitted this ‘Yesterday’ photograph, snapped just before the 1953 Rowan County Bicentennial Parade. According to Wilson, the 1911 Overland car is ... Read more

by Mark Wineka, Monday, January 19, 2015 12:00 am

Local

It’s amazing what $1.07 will buy

SALISBURY — I tend to live my days under a rock, which is not good for someone in the newspaper business, so it came as a ... Read more

by Mark Wineka, Sunday, January 18, 2015 12:00 am

Local

Whiskey bottles uncovered in Spencer attic a ‘find of the decade’

SPENCER — Avid bottle collector John Patterson Jr. still can’t believe how close he was to these rare whiskey bottles without ever knowing it. Back ... Read more

by Mark Wineka, Thursday, January 15, 2015 12:00 am

Local

HSF offers vacant lot to anyone willing to move surveying company’s house

By Mark Wineka mark.wineka@salisburypost.com SALISBURY — The clock is ticking, but Historic Salisbury Foundation is trying to offer an incentive to anyone who might be ... Read more

by Mark Wineka, Wednesday, January 14, 2015 12:00 am

Local

Boy, 8, dies after falling through ice at Hurley Park

By Mark Wineka mark.wineka@salisburypost.com SALISBURY — An 8-year-old boy died Sunday afternoon after breaking through ice and going underwater in a pond at Elizabeth Holmes ... Read more

by Mark Wineka, Monday, January 12, 2015 12:23 am

News

Yesterday: Hood Theological Seminary site in 1960

Reginald W. Brown provided this ‘Yesterday’ photograph and the information to go with it. Brown is involved in researching the history of Hood Theological Seminary in ... Read more

by Mark Wineka, Monday, January 12, 2015 12:00 am

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